What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling